I'm not going to get a life and death answer out of you here.
The NRU was functional, and you said earlier in your responses that you didn't know it was going to go down in advance, obviously. You seem surprised that the Chalk River facility ran into this difficulty. By that I mean it worked well until it didn't.
Your government has stepped in with a proposal of alternatives. In fact, our research has shown that not all of the treatments that moly-99 is able to perform for Canadians, especially cancer patients, actually have viable alternatives that are anywhere near to being as high in quality. I'm sure you're aware that I've had folks in my family diagnosed with cancer, and early and accurate detection was absolutely critical, which is what these isotopes produced at Chalk River were meant to supply. The substitution of lesser-quality procedures should be of grave concern.
I have no idea why you won't simply call it what you did in 2007 in terms of a life and death situation, with the vast majority of reactors in the world not up and running and producing isotopes. You've talked about workshops, studies, committees, and expert panels. I want you to offer today to Canadians a guarantee that those waiting for the detection of cancer will have the supply at their hospital.
Can you do that?